St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 June 1895 — Page 3

Your Health Depends Upon pure, rich, healthy blood. Therefore, see that your blood is made pure by Hood’s Sarsaparilla The only true b'ood purifier prominently in the public eye to-day. Diltc act harmoniously with 1 lUvU Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 25c. Epidemic Among Fish. A widespread and deadly epidemic disease is killing the fish in the lakes and ponds of Connecticut. Thousands of the fish have died and floated ashore, very white in color, sometimes with a fungous growth on their bodies ami in some cases the tins dropping off. It appears, so far as reported, to have affected only perch and pickerel, the bass, when in the affected waters, having escaped, and in no case have the fish died in mill ponds. The disease appears to be similar to that in the Inland waters of the State in 1579, when a kind of slug was found In the bodies of the fish. The cause of the epidemic will be investigated, it is stated, by one of the professors of Wesleyan University. I

LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABEE COM PUL XD Benefits Three Generations. CSPECIAI. TO OUB LADT BKAI'EBa ] “I have used Lydia E. Pinkham'» Vegetable Compound in my family ten years with the best of resullsj 1 T ' MM IP 4?? / dh '■ s ’ V 1 “Before taking It 1 had falling of ths Womb; such bearing-down pains, backache, and kidney trouble. I had had eight children, and was approaching the change of life. “ I took the Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills; was cured of all my troubles, and passed through the change all right, and now am Inty-four years old and well. My daughter had catarrh of the bladder, and it cured her. I send you my picture with my grandson, whose mother was cured tv ■yoxxr TomeAion. 1 will .vvvunnciVl I your Uompountl to every body."— Mrs. r L. Kelly, Patchogue, L.L Hartford Bicycles ' IA. // 1 \ i » J • Elegant in Design ® » > Superior in Workmanthlp 5 » Strong and Easy Running ! ? Hartfords are the sort of bii J cycles most makers ask SIOO for. 2 ? Columbias are far superior 5 iZ to so-calied “specials,” for which 5 ; ? $125 or even $l5O is asked. 5 i ? It is well to be posted upon the 5 i _ bicycle price situation. 3 i ? The great Columbia plant is work- □ ; * ing for the rider’s benefit, as usual. 5 • Columbias, 5 100 | • POPE MFG. CO. “ewwRK 3 General Offices Chicago W and Factories, san Francisco « B HARTFORD, Conn. ^^ NCB 3 * The Columbia. Catalogue, a work of « 1 A highest art, telling of and picturing clearly ci , all the new Columbias and Hartfords, is m free from any Columbia Agent, or is mailed EE I & for two 2-cent stamps. « Beecham’s pills are for biliousness, sick headache, dizziness, dyspepsia, bad taste in the mouth, heartburn, torpid liver, foul breath, sallow skin, coated tongue, pimples , loss of appetite, etc., when caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. One of the most important things foj everybody to learn is that constipation causes more than half the sickness in the world,especially of women; and it can all be prevented. Go by the book .free at you: druggist's,or write B.F. AlleuCo. ,365Cana’. St., New York. Pills, 10$ and 25$ a box. Annsal sales more than 5,060.000 boxes. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR * The best * F^OOO FOR Dyspeptic,Delicate,lnfirm and AGED PERSONS ♦ JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. *

Remarkable Prehistoric Relics. But in no part of this country, porhaps, have so many valuable "finds” been made as in the territory of New Mexico. All this region seems to have been thickly peopled ages ago by a highly civilized race. On the highest point of the great Potrero de las Vacas of New Mexico are the most remarkable prehistoric relics that have been discovered, being no less than the gods sculptured in stone that were worshiped by the ancients. These are the statues of mountain lions carved from a volcanic rock. The images are inclosed in a rude and almost circular stone wall, in a space of fifty feet in circumference, three feet in height, with an entrance projecting eighteen feet toward the southeast three feet wide. The lions face directly toward the east, are two in number, separated by a space of twelve inches, and are each six feet in length, and each represents a puma, or mountain lion, in the act of crouching tor a spring. The heads of these statues are almost entirely destroyed, showing plainly the marks of the pious hammer that sought their overthrow. The legs, bodies and tails of the animal are better preserved, and constitute the remains of the most remarkable stone images set up for pagan worI ship in the territory of the United 1 States. To these gods the Cochita Indians of the present day pay homage. Blackbirds Win the Day. In|Uapitol Park the other day a flock of blackbirds attacked and put to flight a well kept greyhound that was taking a quiet trot up the walk . The feathered army, apparently at a signal given by one of their number, swooped down on the unsuspecting dog and struck him with their sharp bills and claws on all sides, at the same time giving forth sharp, shrill and angry cries. But his dogship was not easily bluffed and started on his course through the park. This was provocation for another onslaught by the feathered army and for nearly a minute it was hard to distinguish between dog and birds, the air and the walk were so thick with hair and feathers, but the greyhound finally wavered, turned and fled, followed to the Tenth and N street entrance by the victors. Perched on fence, shrub and tree, the dog going down the street with an occasional scared look behind him, the birds seemed to say: "You want to read the signs, and when they say ‘no dogs allowed in these grounds, that’s just what it means, and we will see that the law is enforced, if it takes the last feather out of our tails.” Tramp Restaurants Abroad. Edinburgh can bo roolro”. 1 tlio best inooriiyiß towns 111 t.reat Britain, and it 1 were a beggar, casting about f<sr a life residence, I think I should select this beautiful city, and that from my own personal experience. There is something deliciously credulous in the true citizen, and the university makes it a specially good place for clothes Our first meal in the town we found at a •‘refuge” in High street. We paid a penny apiece for a quart of good thick soup and half a loaf of bread, i It was the largest quantity <d Mip I ever had for so little money: but it J should be remembered that it was a * charity. Cheap restaurant living, in both Scotland and Engian 1. is more । of a theory than a reality. For two- : pence I have had a dinner at a Her- I bage in Germany that I could not get in Great Britain for five; and for : 10 cents 1 have had the table d hote ' with four courses in Chicago that I couid not get in London for a shilling. Wouldn't Eat Them Raw. A story comes from the dispensary of one of the Chicago hospitals. The physician in attendance after listen- j ing to a woman’s tale regarding her husband’s ailment, prescribed some 1 medicine‘and also told her to | apply some leeches on the sick man. When the woman returned next day the doctor asked her if her husband was better. “No.” she said; “he is rather worse, if anything.” *• Did you follow out my instructions with regard to the leeches?” ” Weil, no—not exactly. John । wouldn't eat them raw, so I fried ' them for him.” Bug Destroyers for Hawaii. I I The Hawaiian Consul lias received I an order from the Commissioner of i .Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii 1 for 500 horned toads, to be used in the ! island to destroy a bug that is eating everything in sight. The Commissioner wrote that a lot of toads had been imported, but that they required water, which was not always handy, while the horned toads need no water and tire equally expert as bug catchers. Consul Wool, there-! fore, advertised for horned toads, offering to pay $1 per dozen forthem. Coffee Crop Short The coffee crop of South and Central America this year will be about ■ 10 per cent, short of the crop of last year, according to statistics received. The Brazilian crop last season was 7,100,000 bags, and the new crop is estimated at considerably less. The Mexican and Central American crops are increasing yearly. The world’s consumption of coffee last year was 11.357,250 bags, of which the United States was first as a consumer and Brazil first as a producer.

COTTON PRODUCTION. Scheme by Which Southern Grower* Hope to Accomplish This Purpose. The cotton-growers of the South are discussing the problem of how to regulate the acreage and production of cotton so as to prevent glutting the markets every year and reducing the price below the profit mark. The Alabama Cotton-growers’ Association recently advocated the agreement plan, whereby all growers were to be pledged to reduce their production a certain per cent, for the common good. Titis scheme, however, though apparently the simplest and most effective, was soon found to be impracticable, for its success depended upon the unanimous consent of all tiie large growers, and this it was impossible to secure. Having abandoned the agreement plan, then, the growers are now proposing a substitute which promises to bring better results, because it strikes at the root of a system that is Indirectly responsible for the yearly increase in cotton production. It is found that a decrease of acreage can hardly be secured so long as the Southern freedmen are induced to rent small holdings and pay the rental in cotton. This practice Is said to be common. The freedmen secure a few acres, and the whole family plant as much cotton as their united labor can achieve. In order to do this the freedmen secure advances on their crop from country trailers, and when they have delivered the cotton for rental, the remainder barely suffices, often does not suffice, to repay the advances. The number of small growers being very large, the volume of production is constantly increasing, because the average increases as fast as the freedmen strike out for themselves. It is proposed to remedy this by making rents of such lands payable in live stock, corn and vegetables Instead of cotton. Tills would not only decrease the cotton product measurably, but nt the same time would enable the freedmen to provide sustenance for their families which at present they neglect to do, being intent on raising cotton. Whether the plan succeeds In reducing the cotton acreage or not It will, If put into practice, be likely to result in greater variety of agricultural products, and this Is said to bo greatly needed in cotton growing districts.—New York Post. THE GUNMAKER OF ILION. JEFFERSON M. CLOUGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. Hi* Health Wa* Too Poor to Permit Attention to BnxlnrM A Great Buffcrcr for Many Years. but Has Now Recovered. (IVnm fAe .S ’ i >7*l. lei .V.df.. I n on.) Thore isn't a gun manufacturer in the | Cnit.-.i . v * ..0 k-. »w .U-e- r »11 XI I l«It. him! I* x ; f .n ». -•** *.._ ■ has been uiUluub aasocuiletl all Ui« Ute with the d.-i elopnient of the tw o best American rifles, Ihe Remington and U in Chester. For years ho was su|M>rluteudent of the E Kemingtun A Son*' great factory at Ilion. X. Y. After leaving there I he refusal a tempting offer <>f the <TiiDC“e ! Government to go to t'lilnn to superintend I their Government factories and a . <<l instead the suncrintendency of the Winchester \rins <’o . nt New Haven, nt . a salary of s7,o’* 1 n year. It was after thia long term of active j labor n« a business man that he found i liimvclf incapacitated for further scri.ec ' by the embargo which rheumatism had i laid u[ioii him and nsigned his jiositiou i more than two years ngo, and returned to I Belchertown. Mass , w here ne now lives ! and own the Phelps farm, a retired sjs>t I I where he has ’hmi acres of land. Being a man of menns he did not spare ; ' the cost and was treated by leading phy- i i sieinns and by baths nt celebrated springs i i without receiving any benefit worth no- : tiee. During the summer of is'.);; ami the ! 1 winter of IMG Mr t'iough was confined | | to his house in Belchertown. Wing unable ; to rise from his bed without assistance, and suffering continually with ncute juiins ami with no taste or desire for food, nor was he able t<- obtain suflicicnt sleep. lairlv in the vear IVG Mr. ( lough heard 5f Dr M illiams - Pink Pills for Pale I People. lie began taking these pills I ; about ths first of March. KM. and coni tinned to do so until the first part of Sep 1 tember following. The first effect no- ; tieex was :i better appetite, and he began 1 to note rm re ..ability to help himself <>!T I the bed and to lie better generally. Last i August iISIH) he was able to go alone to his summer residence and farm of l’>3 i acres on Grenadier Island, among the Thousand Islands, in the River St Lawrence, where from the highest land of his farm lie commands a view for thirteen miles down the river, and sixty of the Thousand Islands can be seen. Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and lias been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the I men employed there, and lie is thankful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for him. 1 Those pills are manufactured by the Dr. I Williams' Medicine Compnnv. SchcnecI tadv. N Y . and are sold only m boxes I I arii.g the firm’s trade mark ami wrap- ■ per, nt 50 cents a box or six boxes^ tor ! $2.50. and are never sold in bulk. They I limy be had of all druggists or direct by i mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Maine Rich in Precious Stones. James Otis, an authority on American gems, says that with the exception of ; the diamond and emerald every pre | cions stone may be found In Maine. The Pine Tree State is rich in topazes, ; garnets, amethysts, pearls and rubies, and tier tourmalines are famous I throughout the world. Eight years ago ' Austria paid $22,000 for a tourmaline found at Mount .Mica, Me., and to-day it fills a prominent place among the crown jewels of that monarchy. Tobacco User's Sore Throat. It’s so common that every tobacco user has i an irritated throat that gradually develops j Into a serious condition, frequently consumption, and it’s the kind of a bore throat that never gets well as long as you use tobacco. 3 he tobacco habit, sore throat and lost manhood cured by No-To-B: c. Sold and guaranteed to cure by Druggists everywhere. । Book, titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke lour Life Away,” free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., New York City or Chicago. Figs grow freely in Greece, but as the quality of the fruit is inferior the bulk of the production is shipped to Trieste and roasted, ground into powder and sold as a substitute for coffee inder the name of fig coffee.

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Ijntewt Theatrfeal Doduc. JpII, we*ve struck It at last, says Knickerbocker in the New York j^Jirder. In an experience of many I have seen all sorts of adverdodges, good, bad and indifferent, WlTTor pure, low-down and don’Deare-so-Itet-the-money thoroughness this Is the >-orst, and it is being practiced at a refutable Broadway theater at that. Gi|>sts at the various hotels have been;receiving perfumed and delicately tinted missives in feminine handwriting, assuring the recipient that It is the writer’s most heartfelt desire to make his acquaintance, but that, having no mutual friends, It has been a matter of some difficulty. Os course, the writer Is coy, and wouldn’t walk up to the gentleman on the street ami grab him by the lapel of his coat, so she states the evening I she Mill be in a certain theater, sitting In a certain row. Nine times out of ten the Jay endeav- । ors to buy a seat in that row, and. falling. buys a seat anyhow, and spends the rest of the evening trying to dis- i cover who wrote him the letter. 1 have heard of a good many schemes, I but tills is about as near an approach j to bunco as ever came under my notice. I'm All VnMrnng. t» the remark of many a nervous Individual. He or she will Boon cease to talk that way «f!er beginning and periD lng In n course of 1 Hostetter’* Stomnrh Bitters. Nothing ke It i to renew strength and appetite and g<>«wl i dlgeetlon. It check* the Inroad* of malaria, ' and remedle. liver complaint, constipatlou. I djepepsl*. rbe>ima(Um and kidney disorder. It la in every ecuse a great household retu- j edy. Biggest Engineering I'ee on Record. i TheAvork of converting the unhealthy , i atuMßlscnso breeding city of Santos, j •qiMiziL Into a modern commercial b’-gnn In IX'? by Professor E 1 oritn: nt t'- rtv-H Unlversln Is I Stuff ing on. The cost will be h. t«een I j <”.<>»><'l «l and Jljwaiiaai iml, as Pro- ! I fpssor Fuertes rts '-iv. s i per ■ ent. of I the total outlay, he will probably enjoy I ! for some time the distinct^ u of being I the best paid engineer a h .>e eompenI sation is on public record. H«ll‘* Catarrh Cure. I» a cou»lltul.oual ure. Ft.ee 75 'uta. The carrier pigeon was in use by the ! I State department of the Ottoman Em- I I plrc as early as the fourteenth century. | : Lithgow says that a dispatch was carI tied fn-m Bagdad to Aleppo, thirty ■ days’ Journey on horses, in forty-eight hours. When love has the power it will alj ways help. Mra. Window’. So rittsn Starr f r Chlldre* Uet b :Uns t *» *; uiim, reau t * r.H iiniuatiuu. cures wind colic. » ccui» a bottle. Jr V KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement : tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live beG : ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly ! adapting the world’s best products to i the’needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure, liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedv, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds,’ headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical , profession, because it acts on the K.id- ' Heys, Liver and Bowels without weak- j citing them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Svrun of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. 3 yrs U last war, 15 adj udlcating claims, atty since

t'barniingly Original. An exchange reports an interesting and suggestive bit of conversation between two young ladles. “What a perfectly charming and original person Mr. Blather Is!’’ said one. “What has he said or done now?” asked the other. “Why, he had a seat In a crowded street-car yesterday afternoon, and when I got In he looked up from bis paper and bowed.” Wisconsin Resorts. Excursion tickets are now on sale by the • Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway to Burlington, Elkhorn, Delavan, Milwaukee, Waukesha. Palmyra, Hartland, Nashotah, Oconomowoc, Kilbourn, Sparta, St. Paul, .Minneapolis, Lake Minnetonka, Tomahawk, Minocqua, Elkhart Lake, Ontonagon, and ail resorts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Michigan Peninsula and the Northwest. Special low rates made on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week to Wisconsin resorts. For rates, time tables and further information apply at ticket office, 95 Adams street, or Union Passenger Station, Canal, Adams and Madison streets. General Fremont’s grave Is on the highest and most beautiful plateau of Rockland cemetery, close by the monument of Lieutenant Commander Gorringe. who brought the obelisk over to । tills country. i Out of Sorts. That is the way you feel ns a result of the headache you had when you awoke tins morning. Get in your usual frame of mind and body by using Ripans Tabules, the standard remedy for all stomach and liver cotnpluints. A sporting Boer has two racing ostriches, one of which has a stride of fourteen feet and can go twenty-two ■ miles an hour. I cannot spgak too highly of riso’s Cure . ■ f<>r < (»E<nmpti<>n. Mas. Fq^sit Mobbs, ", W '• !-• . Y.'rk. iw.

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YOU WILL REALIZE THAT “THEY LIVE WELL WHO LIVE CLEANLY,” IF YOU USE ..SAPOLIO_ ; I IJ®lrPutYour | I Foot In It | ;3 when yon buy inferior soap £' m instead of the genuine m K H [SANTA QAUSSOAPI R The favorite of every woman who ever used it w Q either in the laundry or for all around the house Q M cleaning. Sold everywhere. Made only by R | THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. 8

BEST IN THE WORLD. V Vox tax NX M Ik ctaawvess Xws ^xevk-% / ®THE RISING SUH STOVE POLISH I* cakes lor genera blacking of a itova, THE SUN PASTS POLISH for a quick after-dinner tniMk applied and poH ished with a doth* Morac Bros., Props., Canton, Mass., U.S. JU lakc^hoFc I in, lake |rfornidtion|^DAa^| ” , ^-jgUlcvc icrnd. —(J? • (a G o f ^ Rad B a ' ay ? Ygw heady vA/at \ ^\ His u f c - \ /I/ । long friends Y' . It is the only /’r A pain remWk S EDYthatinI' - etantly stop* moas J excruciating n —n pains, allay* <1 —lnfiammar 1 3 "gr iJ >» Mion, an& £ M I cure * aoa - * J/ 7 gestun. r Internally a teaspoonful in water will in n few mlnutescure Cramps Bpasni< Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Head* ache. Aiarrhcea, Summer Complaint, Dysentery, Colic, Flatulency and all Internal paisa, There isxiot a remedial agent in the world that will cure fever and ague and all other malnfioun. bilious and other fevers, (aided hr RADWAY’S PILLS), so quickly as B K TLWAY’S READY RELIEF. Price 53 cents per bottle. Sold bv Dm grist*. RADWAY & CO., New York. Raphael; Angelo, Rubens, T&sm The -UIHENE REV ERSI BLl^re the Be^t and NUmbS Eco*oniV tlCo Ibtm and Caffs worn ; they ir 'mid-.at ICnf cloth, both sides finished al.he, and, beina ver-lble. on uvllar is equal t«> two ot any other £Lh4« They fit will wtar well arid look well. A box of Iw 00l a s or Five Fairs < f Cuffs 'or Tw^nty-hveCent* J A Bampld (’ lar and I'.iir f Cuffs by mail tor Oei;tM Name stile axni >ize. Address REVFIKSiBEi: Cf>Ll AR COMPANT, 77 rtAKKLin ST. REW TOR* 27 KILBY ST.. < I EWIS’ 98^ LYf La Powderrd and Perfumed. (satemed.) l/i The utrongexl and purest Lye mtd*. tyn V like otbrr Lye st being a &** /nP° ude r and j>3. Ked in a c«u witA 24 ’£•' r< m nable Id. th- contents are atJ ways ready for use. Will make th* pe-lnmerf II rd soap In 2D mia. Übs bailing. It Is the l>e«r torch an<.ng waste pipes, disinfectmW ing sinks, clas-ts, washing buttle^ ■ ■ paints, trees, etc. PENNA. SALT MFG. CO. SZliira^AK’igS Geti‘l Agts., Piiiia., PaA j fts PAYS FOR ;Y’-. L S3 3§B in 100 bighgraide _4. « I B I papers in Illinois, XTO <9 91 IB IU 11111 or we can insert E ra S E ® ® 3 it 3 times in 1,375 country SUy g papers for SEND FOR CATALOGUE. CHICAGO NEWSPAPER UNION, 93 South Jefferson Street, - Chicago, Hi f wjlhim M ■ BUMagCTrewia -ererelief • rTtrera KIDDER 8 PASTiLLES.^^^ n a T F MIF f* Thomas P. Simpson. Washington, I r|l I % D. C. No et t's tee until Patent oh- ■ tained. Write for Inventor’s Gddfc C. N. U. No. VITHEN WRITING IS ADVERTISERS »’ please say you saw the advertlsemeak in thia paper.